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The Judgement of Martin Bucer concerning divorce written to Edward the sixth, in his…The Ivdgement of Martin Bucer concerning divorce written to Edward the sixt, in his…
The Judgement of Martin Bucer concerning divorce written to Edward the sixth, in his second book of the Kingdom of Christ, and now Englished : wherein a late book restoring the doctrine and discipline of divorce is here confirmed and justified by the authority of Martin Bucer to the Parliament of England.The Ivdgement of Martin Bucer concerning divorce written to Edward the sixt, in his second book of the Kingdom of Christ, and now Englisht : wherein a late book restoring the doctrine and discipline of divorce is heer confirm'd and justify'd by the authoritie of Martin Bucer to the Parlament of England.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1644
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THE JUDGEMENT OF MARTIN BUCER TOUCHING DIVORCE. › Chapter 38
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Now to the end it may be seen that this agrees with the divine law, the first institution of marriage is to be considered, and those texts in which God established the joining of male and female, and described the duties of them both. When God had determined to make woman, and give her as a wife to man, he spake thus, Gen. 2. 18. It is not good for man to be alone, I will make him a help meet for him. And Adam said, but in the Spirit of God, v. 23. 24. This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cl•av to his wise, and th y shall be one flesh.
NOw to the end it may be seen that this agrees with the divine law, the first institution of mariage is to be consider'd, and those texts in which God establisht the joyning of male and famale, and describ'd the duties of them both. When God had determin'd to make woman, and give her as a wife to man, he spake thus, Gen. 2. 18. It is not good for man to be alone, I will make him a help meet for him. And Adam said, but in the Spirit of God, v. 23. 24. This is now bone of my bone, and slesh of my slesh. Therfore shall a man leav his father and mother, and shall cl•av to his wise, and th y shall be one slesh.
To this first institution did Christ recall his own; when answering the Pharisees, he condemned the licence of unlawful divorce. He taught therefore by his example, that we, according to this first institution, and what God hath spoken thereof, ought to determine what kind of covenant marriage is, how to be kept, and how far; and lastly, for what cau•s to be dissolved. To which decrees of God these also are to be joined, which the holy Ghost hath taught by his Apostle, that neither the husband nor the wife hath power of their own body, but mutually each of either's. That the husband shall love the wife as his own body, yea as Christ loves his Church, and that the wife ought to be subject to her husband, as the Church is to Christ.